Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʃ | · | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | tʃ | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phonological Rules
/s/ → [ʃ] / k_
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 185 transcribed dictionary entries (913 total tokens)
/o/
94 (10.3%)
/e/
81 (8.9%)
/u/
80 (8.8%)
/a/
69 (7.6%)
/s/
61 (6.7%)
/t/
54 (5.9%)
/j/
44 (4.8%)
/ʃ/
41 (4.5%)
/k/
39 (4.3%)
/i/
37 (4.1%)
/l/
30 (3.3%)
/θ/
29 (3.2%)
/w/
26 (2.8%)
/n/
25 (2.7%)
/p/
24 (2.6%)
/f/
23 (2.5%)
/m/
22 (2.4%)
/g/
21 (2.3%)
/x/
21 (2.3%)
/v/
20 (2.2%)
/d/
16 (1.8%)
/eː/
11 (1.2%)
/b/
11 (1.2%)
/iː/
8 (0.9%)
/aː/
7 (0.8%)
/uː/
6 (0.7%)
/r/
5 (0.5%)
/oː/
5 (0.5%)
/z/
3 (0.3%)